Sunday, May 22, 2011

Giant barge arrives at Fukushima plant to store radioactive water

A giant water-storage barge has arrived at Japan's quake-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant to store highly radioactive waste water from the basement of a reactor building, Kyodo news reported on Saturday. Tepco will use the 136-meter-long, 46-meter-wide Megafloat as a storage site for contaminated waste water leaked from reactor buildings.

Reactor 1 suffered a near complete core meltdown in the March disaster, allowing 3,000 tons of water to leak into its basement. Fuel rods at reactors 2 and 3 may also have largely melted.

Source: RIA Novosti

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